SORRY, REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT!
The next meeting of the Toronto .NET User Group will be MONDAY August 11, 2008. At this meeting, we have an amazing opportunity to have with us a member of the VB\LINQ team from Redmond - Jonathan Aneja! He promises to go as DEEP, DEEP, DEEP into the subject as time allows! We'll also host a completely open half hour discussion to give YOU the opportunity to answer any LINQ questions you may have!
WE HAVE MOVED!! See below for our NEW meeting location at the MISSISSAUGA CONVENTION CENTRE at 75 Derry Road Mississauga, Ontario, L5W 1G3. We are also working hard to get all of our meetings fully catered again!
When? MONDAY August 11, 2008, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Where? WE HAVE MOVED!! MISSISSAUGA CONVENTION CENTRE at 75 Derry Road Mississauga, Ontario, L5W 1G3 (near corner of Hurontario St - Hwy 10).
Is this meeting CATERED? YES - Pizza and Pop!
6:00 p.m. - Meet and greet! Arrive early! Great Prize give aways!!
6:30 p.m. - Opening Remarks from the User Group President
6:45 p.m. - TOPIC: VB 2008/LINQ Deep Dive
Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a new platform feature in Visual Studio 2008 that allows you to access objects, databases, and XML through a common query syntax (in both VB and C#). In this talk, we’ll take a deep dive into the language features that LINQ uses internally to process your query, and see how they can be used in your own code. Topics we’ll cover include:
- Query expressions
- XML Literals
- Type Inference
- Anonymous Types
- Extension Methods
- Lambda expressions
- Closures
- Expression Trees
- Partial Methods
- Relaxed Delegates
- Performance/Deferred Execution
- LINQ to Dataset
- Dynamically constructing a LINQ query
We’ll also look at some of the cool new IDE features as well as free add-ons such as Refactor! which can greatly improve your day-to-day productivity. If you want to learn what makes VB the most powerful language for working with data then come on out!
8:15 p.m. - OPEN Q&A SESSION with Jonathan! Bring your most intimate LINQ questions with you! Your most troublesome puzzles! Jonathan promises to answer your questions by example. A fabulous opportunity first hand with an expert!
8:45 p.m. - Wrap up and Prizes!
SPONSOR MESSAGE:
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GURULINK: GuruLink is proud to support the Toronto .NET User Group, one of Toronto’s most successful and highly attended user groups. We have been involved with and attending the events for years, and are now pleased to have the opportunity to formally and publicly show our support through sponsorship. It is a great forum for people with a keen interest in Microsoft Technologies looking to expand and improve their skill set and their marketability and generally keep informed of hot new technologies. We are looking forward to contributing to its ongoing success and look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.